 The projection and condescension among a lot of these people, it's just astounding. She says national operatives are going to continue to come in and try to manipulate our system. Mark Elias. Allowing unaffiliated candidates to follow the more lenient new party rules by creating faux parties, fake parties, is turning a blind eye to partisan mischief, potentially. And we need to look at that. And it's time to put a stop to it.